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Relations 



Concerning the Origin of the 

Pilgrims Society 



As a Matter of Insuring Historical 
Accuracy, tlie within Record 
is PublisKecJ 



FRED V. S. CROSBY 
120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 




EARL ROBERTS 



/'tin's /uiitloi/, j'Wrr )'o?-k Ifira/d 

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TO HAVE 
A RESTl PLACE, 



steps Taken in London for Formation 

of an Anglo-American 

Club. 



WIEETIN6 AT CARLTQN HOTEL 



Plan of Organization Outlined l3y Jlr. 

Lindsay Russell Approved and 

Conuuittee Appointed. 



;bt the heralds special wire] 
London; Saturday. — A meeting was 
hc!d at tlie Carkon Bbtel yesterday, when 
tlio first jteps were taken in the forma- 
tion cf an Anglo-American Club, to be 
known a> ' Tlr,- Piljjrims." 

(icneral .Joseph Wheeler presided, Mr. 
IT, E. V. Britlain acted as secretary and 
souie forty men were present. 

I'lic object of the cUib and a plan of 
organization were outlined by Mr. Lind- 
.say Russell, of New Yoik, who has be(?n 
the principal mover in the matter. Mr. 
Hainiltcfi McCormick, Colonel Mahan, (of 
tho British army), Mr. Oliver Hereford, 
Mr. Frank A. Mnnsey, and Mr. James 
McDonald all spoke in unqualified praise 
iif the JJea and were in favon of imme- 
diate, ^teps being taken for the organiza- 
tion of the olub upon tlio lines suggested 
by Mr. Russell, and which have ajrcady 
jitgfin figt f.ef th:.)fi the Heraid. j^i,,,,, 



CABLE ADDRESS INTEHLEX 
TELEPHONE CORTLANDT 1249 



McLaughlin, Russell, Coe & Sprague 

CITY INVESTING BUILDING. 165 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK 



TREDERICK C. MCLAUGHLIN 
LINDSAY RUSSELL 
WALTER E, COE 
RUFUS W. SPRAGUE, JR- 
EDWARO P SHARRETTS 
ROBERT H. HILLS 



December 18, 1919. 
Mr. Frederic V. S. Crosby, 

Union Pacific Railroad Co. 

120 Broadway, New York City. 

Dear Mr. Crosby: 

Referring to your enquiry concerning the Pilgrims Society, which was 
formed for the purpose of bringing together at intervals statesmen and 
informed men of the United States and Great Britain and of affording a sort 
of Board of Hospitality as a means of fostering friendship, I may say that 
perhaps no one individual could be said to have founded it. The common law 
rule that it takes three or more to make a mob is perhaps applicable to a 
Society. However, those who co-operated and contributed most in the 
formative period were: 



NEW YORK 
Bishop Potter 

William Eutler Duncan 

George T. Wilson 

R. A. C. Smith 

Herbert Noble 

Robert J. Mooney 

P. Cunlif fe-Owen 



LONDON 

General Joseph Wheeler 
Albert S. Crockett 

(Correspondent, N. Y. Herald) 
George T. Wilson 
Milton B. Snyder 

(of the N. Y. Herald) 
Walter Neef 

(of the Associated Press) 
Louis C. Hay 
J . Arthur Barrat t 
Frank A. Munsey 
1. N. Ford 

(of the N. Y. Tribune 
H. R. Chamberlain 

(of the N. Y. Sun) 
R. A. C. Smith 
H. E. Brittain 

Mr. Choate, who was Ambassador to England at the time, declined to 
support the Society in its initial stages on account of the opposition of 
the American Society of London. 

With this I send the ancestral tree of the Pilgrims. 

Too much cannot be said in praise of the unremitting interest and 
activity during the past fifteen years of George T. Wilson and R. A. C. Smith 
of New York and Sir Harry E. Brittain of London in directing and articulating 
the work of the two branches of the Pilgrims. 

Very sincerely yours, 

LINDSAY RUSSELL. 




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I beg to thaiii: you tor- your letters of the 14trj and 16th. instant 
in regard to the rormation of an International Glut. As I l'iav« 
already inTormed you, I am in favour of tha s scheme, and will en- 
duavcur to preside, ii' pcssibl.,, at the meeting which it is pro- 
pose i to held at the Carlton KaStel nex-t week. T am engaged on the 
25th and 26th. 

Berorti anything definite io settled would it not be. advisable 
to ascertain what Mr Ciiambt- plain's views are re,c:ardxng tlie proposed 
club? Its success, would, I tllink, depend a good deal on his sup- 
porting it. 



Believe ^me. 



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?&i,3or General J. ITheeler* 
United States Army. 



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Washington Barracks, D. G., 
December 4, 1919. 



Mr. Frederic V. S. Crosby, 
Union Pacific R. R. Company, 
120 Broadway, New York City. 



Dear Sir: 

My father, General Joseph Wheeler, and I while on a 
visit to London in the summer of 1902 were in frequent 
intercourse with Mr. Lindsay Russell, a family friend. It 
was at Mr. Russell's office at 3 Finch Lane, London, that 
my father first saw the plan of organization of the 
Pilgrims Society and received an invitation to cooperate 
therein. Later he called on Lord Roberts and presented 
the idea to him and got his approval. He subsequently 
called upon several other distinguished Englishmen to 
extend the invitation of the Society to its first banquet. 

Mr. Harry Brittain, who was a clerk in Mr. Russell's 
office at that time, first met my father there. 

Verytrulyyours, 

JOSEPH WHEELER, Jr. 

Colonel , U. S. A. 



Telephone, Mibray Hhl 2"'45 

The Bryant Advertising Corporation 

One hundred and three Park Avenue 

M.vsv s ch.,.,..,.,. Pershing Square 

Albkki S. Crockett N.Tr'AV/ \^/^r\jy Alexander Malcolm 

Vict PKCi A THEAS iNC, W X vJlviV ART DIRECTOR 



December 3, 1919. 



Mr. Frederic V. S, Crosby, 
Union Pacific Railway Co., 
165 Broadway, 
New York City. 

Dear Sir: 

In reply to your inquiry concerning the Society of the Pilgrims, I 
may say that as a correspondent of the New York Herald in London during the 
year 1902, I know the following to be facts: 

The man who conceived the idea of such an organization was 
Mr. Lindsay Russell, a member of the bar of New York, who at that time had an 
office in London. Before he proceeded to put his plan into execution, 
Mr. Russell spoke to me several times about the need for a society whose 
purpose should be to foster Anglo-American friendship, and even outlined how 
and by whose aid he expected to bring such an association into being. He 
was cnairman of the organization committee of the Pilgrims in London, and it 
is my understanding that he was one of those most active in the formation of 
the American organization in New York. I know that his London Office in 
Pinch Lane was for some time the headquarters of the Society, 

Sir Harry Brittain has played a very active part in the development 
of the Pilgrims, but it is unfair to him as well as to others, that he should 
be called the "founder" of the Society. When I first knew Harry Brittain, 
he was in the employ of Mr. Russell, and the latter told me at the time he 
had engaged the young Englishman to do some special work for him. 

Sir Harry did not found the Pilgrims; it would be nearer correct to 
say that the Pilgrims founded Sir Harry. At any rate, he saw his great 
opportunity when it was offered, and it is highly creditable to him that he 
seized it, for it gave him the chance to come eventually into close touch 
with the leading men of at least two countries, and actually provided a means 
to a career for which by education and disposition he was eminently suited. 
For the development of the Pilgrims in England, a great share of the credit 
must go to the energy, tact and resourcefulness of Sir Harry; but the 
founder of the Society was an American. 

Yours very truly, 
ASC/J ALBERT S. CROCKETT. 



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LONDON TIMES JUNE 19, 1903 

In an article concerning the annual dinner 
of the Pilgrims Society held at Princes' Restaurant, 
Picadilly, the Archdeacon of London presiding, the 

Times says : 

"Sir Gilbert Parker proposed "the Pilgrims" 
and Mr. Lindsay Russell, founder of the Society, 
who was presented by the Chairman with a silver 
loving cup in token of his services, responded." 



THE WORLD, LONDON JUNE 23. 1903, says: 

"The Annual Dinner of the Pilgrims at Princes' on 
Friday had one pleasing incident of which I should 
like to speak. It was the presentation to Mr. Lindsay 
Russell, the founder of the Pilgrims both here and in 
New York, of a magnificent silver loving cup appro- 
priately inscribed. Mr. Russell sails for New York 
to-day after a stay in England of nearly two years." 



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